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6/2/2020

A Bigger Demon Can Be Conquered: The Voice of Jha’asryel-Akquil Bishop

Opinion

Jha'asryel-Akquil Bishop & Megan Conn

Jha’asryel-Akquil Bishop, 24, was born and raised in Guyana, where they were an ambassador for the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport. In 2015, they attended the seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama City.

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4/2/2020

Lack of Shelter Beds in New York Leaves LGBTQ Youth At Risk During Pandemic

Megan Conn

Last week, a 19-year-old with nowhere to stay in a city being ravaged by coronavirus made a desperate phone call to Trinity Place, a 10-bed shelter for LGBTQ youth on the Upper West Side. 

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3/23/2020

Homeless Youth Found Infected in New York as Providers Clamor for Help

Megan Conn and Michael Fitzgerald

A young person tested positive for the fast-spreading coronavirus at a New York runaway and homeless youth shelter today, the same day program directors implored city leaders to pay attention to the dire situation for youth living on the streets.

6/24/2019

This Conference to End Youth Homelessness May Have Been the Biggest Ever

Michael Fitzgerald

No issue dominates big city politics right now like homelessness. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have come in for the harshest criticism of their tenures over proliferating tent villages and visible human suffering on their sidewalks.

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